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… time when the tea-table was coded as domestic and feminine. The production of sugar was closely linked to transatlantic slavery, as documented in James Grainger's georgic poem The Sugar Cane (1764). The 1790s saw a major sugar boycott, in which female consumers participated and which aimed at the emancipation of slaves. Information about slavery in the West Indies was distributed through pamphlets, satirical prints, petitions, and objects. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumption Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Tea Tea-table Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became more affordable and …

… dealings. People > Commerce Mots-clés Commerce Merchants Middling sort North America Politeness A merchant was ‘a trader or a dealer by wholesale’, especially ‘one who trafficks to remote countries’. 1  Not only did the variety of … The National Archives , Kew, London, E 190/1427/5. Some of the most popular new commodities were linked directly to the slave trade. Foster Cunliffe was the head of a prosperous slave-trading family in Liverpool, where he also served three terms as mayor. By the mid-eighteenth century, Liverpool …

… Anna Laetitia Barbauld and William Godwin. As an abolitionist ( A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade , 1788) and pacifist, Williams expressed sympathy in her works for the American Revolution ( An American Tale , …

… of the species through time. Savagery is not absent from the eighteenth-century society, though: Darwin denounced slavery as an obstacle to the progress of mankind. Slavery is a counter-model of sociability as it is defined by Darwin: it is the refusal to sympathize with fellow-humans … the Age of Pasturage, the Age of Agriculture, the Age of Commerce (which was characterized by ‘luxury’ and ‘slave trade’) and the Age of Philosophy. The Age of Philosophy was yet to come; it was an idealized future without war and …

… standing. At Holy Trinity, Hull, on 12 February 1792, vicar Thomas Clarke reminded his flock of the injustices of the slave trade, arguing that they had to do to others as they wanted to be done to themselves, regardless of setting or colour. 22 … of the High Sheriff (Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by John White, 1713); Thomas Clarke, A Sermon on the Injustice of the Slave Trade (Hull: Printed by J. Ferraby, 1792). 23 . Frank Albert Abbott, The body or the soul? Religion and Culture in …

… exploration of sociability. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Salons Enlightenment Sentiment Novel Celebrity Satire Slavery In a letter written from Paris to the actor David Garrick, Laurence Sterne wrote in 1762: ‘have converted many … expressing his enthusiasm for uncle Toby as well as for his sermons, and suggested that he might write about the African slave trade with the West Indies: ‘that subject, handled in your striking manner, would ease the yoke (perhaps) of many—but if …